Sounding an alarm on their megaphone and swarming into the dining halls, around 40 members of the Student Worker Front demonstrated Wednesday night in support of UCLA’s service workers. Starting shortly after 7 p.m., the students rushed from cafeteria to cafeteria, chanting loudly and passing out informational flyers as they walked in without paying. “Our […]
Author Archives: Ari Bloomekatz
Labor teach-in focuses on action
When about 200 students began shouting “Si, se puede! Si, se puede!” in unison Tuesday afternoon, one could have mistaken Ackerman Grand Ballroom for a union hall. But the students from UCLA, local community colleges and high schools weren’t about to go on strike, and were instead part of the first Student/Labor Action Teach-In organized […]
Hospital construction over budget
Construction shortfalls and delays at the Westwood Replacement Hospital will cost UCLA an estimated $35 million to $45 million more than anticipated by the time the hospital opens for operation in 2007, said the hospital’s project director Thursday. Most of the delays and construction problems at the hospital, which will be renamed the Ronald Reagan […]
A defective incentive
Three days before his deadline to decide where to attend graduate school, economics student Ben Hood said he visited UCLA and was guaranteed housing ““ a perk that made his decision slightly easier. “If I didn’t want to come here, I’m not sure that guaranteed housing would have made the difference,” Hood said. “(But) it […]
Chief Ross, reporting for duty
Every morning when Karl Ross arrives at the police station at 7 a.m., he goes on a tour. It’s not that the newly appointed chief of university police hasn’t seen some parts of the police station or that he needs to monitor his staff. Surveying the various departments with a cup of coffee in his […]
Voting for Iraq
Mohammad Tajsar and his older brother, Yousef, have never been to Iraq. But for their entire lives, their parents have told them stories about the country and why their family had to flee before they were born. On Sunday, the two brothers voted in the first Iraqi election in over three decades, helping fulfill a […]
Immigrants cast out-of-country ballots
IRVINE “”mdash; Hours before sunrise Friday morning, four Iraqi immigrants from Arizona parked just outside the locked gate at the El Toro Naval Base near Irvine to wait for their chance to vote. Standing outside their cars at 5 a.m., the group had left Phoenix around midnight to make sure they were among the first […]